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Keyword Research Services – A Godsend Or A Rip Off?
Are you like me and struggle with keyword research? Actually I can find loads of keywords. Most of what I find are just not good enough.
I thought the data from Google’s keyword tool was always bang on. I mean, they wouldn’t be telling fibs about their data, would they? Turns out they do and they don’t.
The data returned isn’t accurate. It would have been correct at some point though. I stumbled across the solution to this particular conundrum.
I went for a key phrase with around 5,000 pages competing against it. I was pretty sure I could get a good result with that keyword. I put out probably thousands of articles.
Not long after I saw that there were now almost nine thousand competing sites. I was shocked at this huge difference. Looked like it was going to be hard work. As it happens most of these extra results were my articles on these different sites.
The point I’m trying to get across is that had I looked at the keyword with 9000 competitors, I would have left it alone. A lot of these sites were ranking with my article so I had a lot of competition but most of it was my own articles. A win win situation if you ask me.
I knew I wasn’t going to get lucky all the time so I decided to try a keyword research service. Getting a daily list of quality keywords sent is something that appeals to me. I calculated the cost against the time it would take me and it seemed a value for money concept.
I decided to give Travis Sago’s Instacash service a try. Let’s face it, Travis is THE bum marketer. And bum marketing really appeals to me.
If I can get a keyword or two in my in box each day then that saves me valuable time. At least a two hour saving. When all I have is time then two hours saved can be huge to me. For what the service costs each day against my 2 hours means I’m getting huge value.
All the big marketers bang on about outsourcing. I reckon there’s not much difference here. I’m simply outsourcing the job to a keyword research service.
Do you wanna know how it went with the Instacash service? Get on over to my website and I’ll tell you. I said earlier about how I got loads of articles published for my chosen keyword. I’ll let you know how I did that on my site